Mampara of the week: Peter Dutton
YOU’RE A BIT OF A DRONGO, MATE
We should not be surprised at the utterances of Peter Dutton, the white supremacist from Oz who spends his free time as the country’s home affairs minister. As soon as the British put their flipflops on Australian beaches in 1788, relationships with the indigenous people have been fraught.
Attacks against Aborigines by settlers resulted in the deaths of thousands of them. A notorious racist remark in 1947 by Australian immigration minister Arthur “Cocky ” Calwell became the rallying cry for anti -immigrant right wingers. But Dutton encourages immigrants — as long as they are South African and white.
He claims this group is living under horrific conditions and facing land seizures and violence. Will you also be offering asylum to the persecuted Rohingya people, Mr Dutton?..
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